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jazeera america >> an explosion of violence and destruction rocks ukraine as german chancellor angela merkel visits the white house. also, chemical weapons have been used again in syria. does bashar al-assad have a secret stockpile of weapons ready to be unleashed. >>> philadelphia police robbing stores and actually are assaulting women, why are the officers still on the job? >>> and are mental diseases superpowers? i'm antonio mora and welcome to "consider this." here's more on what's ahea
jazeera america >> an explosion of violence and destruction rocks ukraine as german chancellor angela merkel visits the white house. also, chemical weapons have been used again in syria. does bashar al-assad have a secret stockpile of weapons ready to be unleashed. >>> philadelphia police robbing stores and actually are assaulting women, why are the officers still on the job? >>> and are mental diseases superpowers? i'm antonio mora and welcome to "consider...
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eaves dropping on angela merkel's private phone calls. the chancellor saying there's room to cooperate. >> translation: there are differences of opinion over what balance to strike over surveillance to protect sit dispns and preinging the privacy -- citizens and protecting privacy. >> president obama was pawned to see the degree to -- pained to see the degree to which the edward snowden dislorms affected his relationship with germany. he tried to reassure. >> i have taken the unprecedented step of ordering our intelligence committees to take the rive si interests of non-u.s. persons into lent. >> the two-parted ways without hammering out a no-spy pore intelligence-sharing agreement. the president saying the u.s. doesn't make an arrangement with its closest partners. >> we are following developments throughout the morning and up to the minute information log on to aljazeera.com. >> u.s. troops on standby to find victims of a massive mudslide. on friday a village was wiped out, killing more than 2,000 people. a rescue operation is under way
eaves dropping on angela merkel's private phone calls. the chancellor saying there's room to cooperate. >> translation: there are differences of opinion over what balance to strike over surveillance to protect sit dispns and preinging the privacy -- citizens and protecting privacy. >> president obama was pawned to see the degree to -- pained to see the degree to which the edward snowden dislorms affected his relationship with germany. he tried to reassure. >> i have taken the...
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you have an industrial lobby and financial lobby in germany telling merkel in no uncertain terms, we want no sanctions whatsoever. then you've got caterpillar in the united states that just lost a $1 billion deal that seamans picked up by going to moscow, meeting with putin and said, hey, we're dealing. so you can't keep the europeans on board. the last order of sanctions the americans just put on this week after we said there have been consequences and they have been basically ripping up the gee neva agreement -- geneva agreement they made on ukraine, there is going to be consequence queens so tough that the russians market go up on them. us saying we'll isolate the russians, not a single brick, not brazil, india or china, that is listening one iota to our policy. the chinese just announced 5 billion more, the chinese development bank in developments in china. we can't isolate the russians. we can push them toward china. it's not in our interest. right now our coalition on ukraine is canada because they have a large ukrainian population and elections coming up and japan because they
you have an industrial lobby and financial lobby in germany telling merkel in no uncertain terms, we want no sanctions whatsoever. then you've got caterpillar in the united states that just lost a $1 billion deal that seamans picked up by going to moscow, meeting with putin and said, hey, we're dealing. so you can't keep the europeans on board. the last order of sanctions the americans just put on this week after we said there have been consequences and they have been basically ripping up the...
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throughout this process president obama spoke early after his meeting with german chancellor angela merkel and basically dismissed the whole protest against cuba sponsored and controlled by russia and put the responsibility for the escalation on moscow alone president obama also showed full support for key its crackdown on the protests in the east of ukraine he called it a move to restore order. who is a senior lecturer of international relations at moscow state university things the western political heavyweights have their eyes closed to the real causes of the chaos in ukraine. they will continue to blame russia as being responsible for this for destabilizing the situation in the ukraine by their view they had a right to destabilize the situation in ukraine a few months ago and helped bring this puts regime to power with the euro my down riots but now russia although there is no evidence they claim has no right to destabilize the situation in the rest of these radicals have not been stopped by the government because they are doing the business of this government these brownshirt paramili
throughout this process president obama spoke early after his meeting with german chancellor angela merkel and basically dismissed the whole protest against cuba sponsored and controlled by russia and put the responsibility for the escalation on moscow alone president obama also showed full support for key its crackdown on the protests in the east of ukraine he called it a move to restore order. who is a senior lecturer of international relations at moscow state university things the western...
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chancellor merkel agreed. >> ( translated ): the 25th of may is not all that far away. should that not be possible to stabilize the situation, further sanctions will be unavoidable. this is something that we don't want. we have made a diplomatic offer, an offer for a diplomatic solution. so it's very much up to the russians which road we will embark on. >> brown: earlier, though, a spokesman for president putin declared ukraine's military actions today have nullified last month's agreement aimed at defusing the crisis. >> ( translated ): at present, we can regrettably say that those actions by the kiev authorities cancel out all geneva agreements. we appeal to the european capitals, to the united states of america, to give appropriate assessment of what is happening, >> brown: russia also called an emergency session of the united nations security council, where ukraine's representative sharply disputed moscow's claims. >> we reject all attempts of russia to blame the government of ukraine for allegedly failing to implement the agreements. and we state that, despite nume
chancellor merkel agreed. >> ( translated ): the 25th of may is not all that far away. should that not be possible to stabilize the situation, further sanctions will be unavoidable. this is something that we don't want. we have made a diplomatic offer, an offer for a diplomatic solution. so it's very much up to the russians which road we will embark on. >> brown: earlier, though, a spokesman for president putin declared ukraine's military actions today have nullified last month's...
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at the white house, president obama and german chancellor merkel, step up and threaten russia with more sanctions. >>> in afghanistan, a landslide burst
at the white house, president obama and german chancellor merkel, step up and threaten russia with more sanctions. >>> in afghanistan, a landslide burst
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merkel says sanctions on russia's economic sectors are not her preference, but she is prepared to implement them. >>> new at 11:00, a bay area congressman on the homeland security committee just finished a tour of sjc. it comes amid safety concerns following the santa clara teen stowaway case. nbc bay area's bob redell live at mineta san jose with congressman swawell's solution to improving security. good morning, bob. >> reporter: good morning, scott. congressman swawell points out that mineta norman international is located here in the center of innovation. he is looking for pilot programs that would use silicon valley technology to better secure the fences here at norman mineta and throughout the country. the representative from the east bay arrived here just over an hour ago to meet with airport security and joined them on a private 45-minute tour of the six miles of fencing that surrounds the roughly thousand acres of taxiways and runways here. you might recall last week, a 15-year-old boy from santa clara was able to scale the fence here undetected, hang out on the tarmac for several
merkel says sanctions on russia's economic sectors are not her preference, but she is prepared to implement them. >>> new at 11:00, a bay area congressman on the homeland security committee just finished a tour of sjc. it comes amid safety concerns following the santa clara teen stowaway case. nbc bay area's bob redell live at mineta san jose with congressman swawell's solution to improving security. good morning, bob. >> reporter: good morning, scott. congressman swawell points...
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the president just wrapped up a joint news conference with the german chancellor angela merkel. the u.s. is warning of tougher sanctions against russia over ukraine. the president saying the preference is a diplomatic solution but if that doesn't happen the next step is more sanctions. he says he understands the concerns of some european countries but he's confident the u.s. and the european union will stand together. >> the goal is not to punish russia. the goal is to give them an incentive to choose the better course. and that is to resolve these issues diplomatically. and i think we are united on that front. within europe, within the eu, i'm sure there has to be extensive consultations. you've got 28 countries and some are more vulnerable than others to potential russian retaliation. we have to take those into account. not every country is going to be in exactly the same place. what has been remarkable is the degree to which all countries agreed that russia's violated international law, violate ed territorial sovereignty of a country in europe and there has to be consequences
the president just wrapped up a joint news conference with the german chancellor angela merkel. the u.s. is warning of tougher sanctions against russia over ukraine. the president saying the preference is a diplomatic solution but if that doesn't happen the next step is more sanctions. he says he understands the concerns of some european countries but he's confident the u.s. and the european union will stand together. >> the goal is not to punish russia. the goal is to give them an...
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angela merkel is under pressure. host: one of the fundamental flaws of sanctions as a foreign-policy tool? guest: it is limited and a blunt instrument but also there is no other choice. not a lot of other alternatives. politics are flawed, too. germany is russia's largest trading partner in the eu. they have more economic interest in the u.s. and its owing to be hard to pressure russia and a major way unless the europeans are willing to play. host: let me share what jack lew told members of congress when it came to sanctions and at russia and the wealthy individuals linked to president putin. [video clip] >> if you look at the impact on russia's economy, it is misleading to look at what happens day by day. you have to look over the period of time since russia went into crimea and since we have imposed sanctions. there has been a substantial deterioration in rush's already weak economy. we see and the stock exchange on the exchange rate. they were downgraded to one notch above junk. the rationale on the bond rating wa
angela merkel is under pressure. host: one of the fundamental flaws of sanctions as a foreign-policy tool? guest: it is limited and a blunt instrument but also there is no other choice. not a lot of other alternatives. politics are flawed, too. germany is russia's largest trading partner in the eu. they have more economic interest in the u.s. and its owing to be hard to pressure russia and a major way unless the europeans are willing to play. host: let me share what jack lew told members of...
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angela merkel is under pressure. host: one of the fundamental flaws of sanctions as a foreign-policy tool? guest: it is limited and a blunt instrument but also there is no other choice. not a lot of other alternatives. politics are flawed, too. germany is russia's's largest trading partner in the eu. they have more economic interest in the u.s. and its owing to be hard to pressure russia and a major way unless the europeans are willing to play. host: let me share what jack lew told members of congress when it came to sanctions and at russia and the wealthy individuals linked to president putin. [video clip] >> if you look at the impact on russia's economy, it is misleading to look at what happens day by day. you have to look over the period of time since russia went into crimea and since we have imposed sanctions. there has been a substantial deterioration in rush's already weak economy. we see and the stock exchange on the exchange rate. they were downgraded to one notch above junk. what the rationale on the bond ra
angela merkel is under pressure. host: one of the fundamental flaws of sanctions as a foreign-policy tool? guest: it is limited and a blunt instrument but also there is no other choice. not a lot of other alternatives. politics are flawed, too. germany is russia's's largest trading partner in the eu. they have more economic interest in the u.s. and its owing to be hard to pressure russia and a major way unless the europeans are willing to play. host: let me share what jack lew told members of...
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what can angela merkel achieve? >> well, i think, you know, the germans have been clear from the onset of this crisis that if push comes to some in the west decides unanimously to move towards this -- outright economic sectoral sanctions against russia, germany's loyalty to the western alliance will be the defining factor here. having said that, in the meantime, merkel and the foreign minister will try to continue to hold back the west from escalating at this point to level three sanctions. end, itaid, in the depends on the situation on the ground in eastern ukraine. the germans have made it clear that even from their perspective, outright military action i russia in -- by russia in eastern ukraine would be something that would push the western alliance beyond their line toward level three sanctions. would get very complicated for pose such anp escalation. that has been clear from the onset of the crisis. >> think you for joining us today. joining us from berlin -- thank you. >> fendi's latest must-have. we will spe
what can angela merkel achieve? >> well, i think, you know, the germans have been clear from the onset of this crisis that if push comes to some in the west decides unanimously to move towards this -- outright economic sectoral sanctions against russia, germany's loyalty to the western alliance will be the defining factor here. having said that, in the meantime, merkel and the foreign minister will try to continue to hold back the west from escalating at this point to level three...
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let's talk about what is happening with the merkel visit to washington dc. we will address all of that. we will talk a little bit about whiskey. we have a great entrepreneurs piece coming up. aboutgoing to be talking man bags. $20,000 man bags. fendi man bags that are been modeled on a handbag all the peekaboo. is -- >> guy, thank you very much for that. let's bring up to speed on some of the companies that are on the move this morning. intercontinental hotels group, beatted revenue that analysts expectations. the company will pay a special dividend after selling two properties. revenue increased six percent from a year earlier. the world's biggest chemical maker beat estimates on increased demand from the agricultural and automobile industry. the company reiterated a target for annual earnings to rise despite plans to divest the gas trading unit in the middle of the year. come, is worth more than bli g richer. inve wynn spoke to bloomberg an interview on business in china. that is coming up. ♪ >> welcome back. one stock on the move today is macau. bloombe
let's talk about what is happening with the merkel visit to washington dc. we will address all of that. we will talk a little bit about whiskey. we have a great entrepreneurs piece coming up. aboutgoing to be talking man bags. $20,000 man bags. fendi man bags that are been modeled on a handbag all the peekaboo. is -- >> guy, thank you very much for that. let's bring up to speed on some of the companies that are on the move this morning. intercontinental hotels group, beatted revenue that...
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here is the challenge for merkel. she understands russian. she is a russian speaker. her country has big foot prints in russia. siemens. merkel is has also proven she is willing to hurt herself -- not hurt. that is too strong of a word. she is willing to have some business damage like last month when they cansedled this airbus satellite sale to russia what was worth 700 million euros. so merkel is willing and in some cases this could be bad for german business, but i'm going to go ahead and press forward with it. two months ago, three months ago, the merkel/obama relationship was defined by the n.s.a. scandal. now it is all about ukraine findings common ground and binding the united states and the european union closer together. >> hans nick -- hans+++ >> welcome back to "countdown." i'm mark barton. >> and i'm anna edwards. let's get right to jonathan ferro. >> i want to take a look at sterling. it was 169 yesterday. up by half of 1% on the week. we're looking at the data. it is getting better. you get u.k. construction in about an hour. that is one to talk about. i
here is the challenge for merkel. she understands russian. she is a russian speaker. her country has big foot prints in russia. siemens. merkel is has also proven she is willing to hurt herself -- not hurt. that is too strong of a word. she is willing to have some business damage like last month when they cansedled this airbus satellite sale to russia what was worth 700 million euros. so merkel is willing and in some cases this could be bad for german business, but i'm going to go ahead and...
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had been surveilling merkel's phone calls and. e-mail communications through her cell phone there is no doubt that tensions still exist between merkel and obama over the issue so is it likely to carry any weight in their conversation to discuss this visit i was joined earlier by holger stark he's the senior washington correspondent for der spiegel and the author of a new book the n.s.a. complex and first asked him to describe the tension surrounding the visit. as a deep disappointment on miracles and not so much about the fact that she's been targeted she see this as a part of professional business it's how president obama handled this affair last summer when the first snowden documents came out merkel send a delegation to washington to find out what really had happened in germany and those people came back and said we got the assurance that there has been nothing done against german interests no german law has been broken and they believe that america's chief of staff stood in front of the cameras and said there is no such an n.s
had been surveilling merkel's phone calls and. e-mail communications through her cell phone there is no doubt that tensions still exist between merkel and obama over the issue so is it likely to carry any weight in their conversation to discuss this visit i was joined earlier by holger stark he's the senior washington correspondent for der spiegel and the author of a new book the n.s.a. complex and first asked him to describe the tension surrounding the visit. as a deep disappointment on...
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merkel asked putin to help get them free. the two sides seem further apart than ever. >>> david stern is in kiev. daniel is in moscow. first of all, it's got provocation to cold war isn't it with this detaining of the attache. what's coming of that? >> there's not much information. there's been an arrest or detention. that has been confirmed in the conversation i had with the ukrainian foreign ministry spokesperson. the person has been asked to leave the country. this is supposed to happen within 24 hours since he was detained yesterday. we expect he'll leave some point today. we don't know anything about what exactly he's accused of or the circumstances of his detention. we do know he was a naval military attache. he has been accused of engaging in activities not in accordance with his job description. >> the acting president describing ukrainian forces as being helpless as to what's happening in the east of the country. there's been a military alert overnight in kiev. talk us through that. >> reporter: well, yes, we've had
merkel asked putin to help get them free. the two sides seem further apart than ever. >>> david stern is in kiev. daniel is in moscow. first of all, it's got provocation to cold war isn't it with this detaining of the attache. what's coming of that? >> there's not much information. there's been an arrest or detention. that has been confirmed in the conversation i had with the ukrainian foreign ministry spokesperson. the person has been asked to leave the country. this is supposed...